AKABEI-CREATE-DB(8)

NAME
akabei-create-db - Chakra package manager: Database Creator

SYNOPSIS
akabei-create-db [action] [database] [targets]

DESCRIPTION

akabei-create-db is the database creator of the Akabei suite. It's supposed to help packagers to create databases which then can be used by akabei.

ACTIONS
To run akabei-create-db one needs to choose one of the following three actions:

generate
    Creates a new databases on disk with the specified filename and adds the given targets.

add
    Adds the given targets to an already existing database. If the database doesn't already exist, there's the possibility to generate it on the spot.

remove
    Removes the given targets from an already existing database.

OPTIONS
After the action, one has to specify two more parameters:

[database]
    This is used to get the database path on disk. Can be either a .db or .db.tar.xz file.

[targets]
    This is a list of targets which are going to be added to/removed from the database. For the add and generate actions accepted file formats which are: .group, .hook, .delta.tar.xz and .pkg.tar.xz. For the remove action it is a simple list of package names.

BUGS
Report any bug in the official Chakra BugTracker, http://chakra-linux.org/bugs in the Akabei section. Try to include as much detail as possible in your explanation.

SEE ALSO
akabei(8)